Trump Cancels North Korea Summit, Citing ‘Open Hostility’

U.S. President Donald Trump canceled the planned summit with North Korea on Thursday, citing “open hostility.” (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.”

By Jake Johnson / 05.24.2018

Citing what he calls the “tremendous anger” and “open hostility” in Pyongyang’s most recent public statement, President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled the planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that was set to take place next month.

“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used,” Trump wrote in a letter to Kim.

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Reacting to Trump’s letter on Twitter, independent journalist and Korea expert Tim Shorrock noted that the statement on Thursday by North Korea vice-minister of foreign affairs Choe Son Hui—in which she referred to Vice President Mike Pence as a “political dummy”—appears to be “what set Trump off.”

But, Shorrock added, Trump has no grounds to complain about “open hostility” given “the hatred and military threats spewing from his vice president and national security adviser” John Bolton.

Trump complains about North Korea’s “open hostility.” Does he even listen to the hatred and military threats spewing from his vice president and national security adviser? Did he know the Pentagon was deploying B-52s in US-SK air drills? All this happened BEFORE NK’s outbursts.